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Is Hegel’s Theory of Sensation Committed to Metaphysics? A Comparison Between Hegel and McDowell on Perceptual Knowledge Federico Sanguinetti (Rio de Janeiro/Padua) Abstract The main aim of this paper is to analyse Hegel’s theory of cognitive reference to the world and, in particular, Hegel
1 Introduction The most conspicuous application of logic in the work of Alexander of Aphrodisias is no doubt his claim that Aristotle’s metaphysics is itself a unified demonstrative science of being qua being, of which the theory of substance and theology are integral parts. 1 After
Hume on the epistemology and metaphysics of value Tsarina Doyle Abstract Abstract: This essay examines the manner in which Hume challenges the cognitivist and realist intuitions informing our ordinary experience of value by identifying values with mind- dependent feelings and by separating facts
leads to a preliminary reconstruens with one major weakness, namely the incompleteness of a central case distinction. In the successful attempt to construct a more tenable reconstruens some additional premises which are deeply rooted in an Anselmian metaphysics are identied. Anselm’s argument seems to
teachings, as demonstrated by the large number of conicting interpretations. In particular, there is no consent on the question whether Parmenides, in spite of the obvious weaknesses of his arguments, ought to be seen as the rst proponent of a purely rational metaphysics, or whether, in view of his
Spinoza’s metaphysics. In this paper I suggest a reconstruction of Spinoza’s notion of substance that meets this challenge and explains a major feature of this notion. I then show how this reconstruction can be used to resolve two fundamental problems of the Cartesian framework that pertain to Spinoza
common features in the approaches taken by Kant and Hegel that are also of interest for the contemporary discussion: 1. The specic modernity of Kant’s and Hegel’s considerations, evident in their rejection of the resources traditionally appealed to by religion and rationalist metaphysics; 2. the anti
conceptual topics in topographical overviews about our ways of talking about ourselves in the world. The resulting attitude to traditional metaphysics gets ambivalent in view of the insight that Aristotle’s prima philosophia is knowledge of human knowledge, developed in meta-scientic reections on notions
1 Introduction The metaphysical status of artefacts is a heated topic among contemporary metaphysicians. Advocates of a hylomorphic perspective are themselves sceptical as to whether artefacts are composed of matter and form. 1 Indeed, it is discussed whether we can even pinpoint the
The Category of Substance Stephen Engstrom, University of Pittsburgh Abstract This paper considers a principal concept of metaphysics – the category of substance – as it figures in Kant’s critical program of establishing metaphysics as a science. Like Leibniz, Kant identifies metaphysical concepts